Khaur
Khaur is a town and union council in Pindigheb Tehsil of Attock District in Punjab Province of Pakistan.Community
The major tribes of town are Kahut, Chauhan while main language is Potwari dialect of Punjabi, and most of the population is Sunni Muslim.The town is the first site of oilfield in Punjab which operated from 1911 to 1950s. The first commercial success came with the drilling of Khaur-1 by Pakistan Oilfields Limited in 1915, on a surface anti-cline in the Potwar Basin. Oil was discovered in sands in the lower part of the Miocene formation and a total of 396 shallow wells were drilled in the field from 1915 to 1954.
